Title :
1 GHz femtosecond erbium-doped fiber lasers
Author :
Sander, Michelle Y. ; Byun, Hyunil ; Morse, Jonathan ; Chao, David ; Shen, Hanfei M. ; Motamedi, Ali ; Petrich, Gale ; Kolodziejski, Leslie ; Ippen, Erich P. ; Kärtner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Saturable Bragg reflector (SBR) mode-locked Er-doped fiber lasers around 1550nm with a repetition rate of 1GHz are demonstrated. Key steps to obtain stable, femtosecond pulses by avoiding thermal damage of the SBR are discussed.
Keywords :
Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical fiber couplers; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
